Word: hassanal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are no clichés. There is even an occasional touch of Kipling in his prose: "Above the village the scant ruins of a castle sat on a fang of rock, accessible only by a precarious path above a 200 foot drop. From this seemingly impregnable strong hold Hassan-i-Sabbah, the 'Old Man of the Mountains,' had ruled . . . and his successors had sat like spiders at the center of their web, for 170 years until Hulagu and his Mongols stormed over the pass...
...China axis. According to one knowledgeable Asian diplomat, Chinese arms aid for the Muslim rebels significantly increased after Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping's visit to Washington in January 1979. And help from other sources seems to be on the way. Last week Egyptian Defense Minister Lieut. General Kamal Hassan Ali admitted that his country was arming and training Afghan rebels. A senior White House official also confirmed that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been providing light infantry weapons-most of Soviet design and presumably bought in third countries-to the Afghan insurgents via Pakistan since mid-January...
...replace them with more tractable, farming people, who could be resettled on the narrow fertile strips along the Juba and Shebele rivers. "The Soviets pretend to be friendly to the Third World, but here, in Afghanistan, and other places, they are the oppressors of colonized people," says Abdullahi Hassan Mohamoud, secretary-general of the W.S.L.F. "If the U.S. helps us to counter Soviet aggression, it will have most of the world on its side." In recent months, he claims, American envoys in Mogadishu have begun to meet discreetly with W.S.L.F. leaders. "There has been no great change in what they...
...does not mean that Andrew Young has slowed his pace or lost his taste for speaking his mind. This time he was in the Western Sahara with leaders of the Polisario Front, an independence movement that seeks to wrest the land away from Morocco. Washington is sympathetic to King Hassan II, so Young's hosts were happy to lay on the hospitality in a desert town and argue their side. The give-and-take got Andy thinking about the folks back home. "In most Government positions you spend your time dealing with cautious, insecure bureaucrats," he said. "I tell...
Final results in the balloting among 22 million eligible voters around the country were expected early this week. By Saturday, the front runner among the eight candidates approved by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini seemed to be Finance Minister Abol Hassan Banisadr, who had been sacked as Foreign Minister last November for his reputed willingness to compromise over the hostages. An air of additional uncertainty was cast over the election by the questionable health of Khomeini, who was suddenly hospitalized for what was officially described as "a mild heart attack." Within 48 hours government bulletins said that the 79-year-old leader...